LIWA is an industry lead initiative to ensure that academia develops skilled and relevant human capital that is critical in driving Kenya Vision 2030 and continued development of innovation, manufacturing, and knowledge industries. Industry is keen to collaborate with academia, with government support, to initiate, facilitate and support linkage projects on all the four themes; academic accreditation, curriculum development, infrastructure development for academia, and research and development.

LIWA seeks to encourage increased sustainable engagement between all levels of academia (TIVET and higher education) with every sector of industry to support market ready human capital. Industry players are eager to support the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MOHEST) to identify sustainable partnerships to project Kenya into competitive global markets.

Background

Realizing the need for a strong and sustainable entity which could work with government and facilitate industry-academia linkages, industry stakeholders initiated Linking Industry With Academia Kenya Trust (LIWA) to ensure that Kenyan academia develops the human capital necessary for Kenya to achieve Vision 2030. In partnership with government and academia, these private sector stakeholders founded LIWA in June 2010.

Mission

LIWA’s mission is to facilitate industry-academia linkages and, thereby, develop institutionalized and sustainable relationships between stakeholders. In so doing, LIWA plays a key role in Kenya’s economic growth. In particular, LIWA’s efforts are concentrated on:

Curriculum Development

Improvement of Teaching and Research Infrastructure in Institutions of Higher Education

Supplementary Academic Accreditation

Research and Development

Vision

LIWA’s vision is to improve the coordination between industry and academia so that this coordination will make a major contribution to the realization of Vision 2030 & the Millennium Development Goals (MDG'S).

What our partners say about us:

"It was a pleasure to participate in the Academic Integrity Seminar. I was happy to meet a lot of the participants and I believe that we will identify more opportunities for co-operation mostly on long-term solutions in achieving anti-plagiarism in our country education sector,"

".....I am very impressed by the student expo you organized. The expo provided us (the students) with a National platform not only to show case our innovative projects but to meet with the personalities from the different industries. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!"